Plone Foundation Board Minutes February 17, 2022
Meeting called to order at 20:04 UTC
Housekeeping
Attendance
Present: William Fennie, Érico Andrei, Paul Roeland, Andy Leeb, Víctor Fernández de Alba
Absent: Jens Klein (excused), Kim Paulissen
Approval of the minutes of Jan 20
Andy moved to approve, William seconded
Approval of the minutes of Feb 3
Paul moved to approve, Victor seconded
Unanimously Approved
Action Items
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Érico: Talk to T.Kim / Carol about the Python Web Conference swag bag
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Paul: GSoC: application status
- call for mentors
- Feb 21 is deadline
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Jens: zope.de / zodb.org domains
- AI team will contact appropriate parties
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Jens: Zope Foundation monies
- no feedback yet
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William: News Item about Board priorities
- written and published- Thank You William!
Incoming Correspondence
- China domain registration
- has been resolved
- [Executive Session]
New Business
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Sponsorship discussion - Thank you Fulvio!
- most sponsors use PayPal, routed to Fulvio
- some direct wire transfers to the Foundation
- Fulvio has to reconcile his records with the treasurer's
- plone.org website has some content-types that would need to be updated for Plone 6
- Fulvio has a CRM set up to assist with administrative tasks, report reconciliation requires some effort
- some coordination between Treasurer and Fulvio would be helpful
- donation vs sponsorship
- outreach/social media needs someone, maybe work with marketing team
- maybe a viewlet/portlet to show and solicit donations on our documentation
- possible avenues for soliciting donations
- maybe a message like the one that appears when brew install neovim in the pip install plone output
- maybe in the welcome to plone for new contributors
- maybe embedded in youtube videos
- maybe in github templates
- page after the installation of plone
- we need a way to engage with active companies that may not yet be part of the community
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Membership Committee recommendations
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Victor has presented us with our new candidates
- all three have been approved by Membership Committee
- Alexandro, Andy motioned, Erico seconded, Unanimously Approved
- Giulia, William motioned, Victor seconded, Unanimously Approved
- Pierro, Paul motioned, Andy seconds, Unanimously Approved
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Continued Business
- GSOC application
- update above
- Zope Foundation Funds
- nothing new
- Marketing Team
- push for more events on website
- members should include twitter handles so can be included in tweets
- social media plays a bigger role, marketing team is ramping up on these efforts
- look for instagram updates on Thursdays
Review Ongoing
- x
Andy moved to adjourn, Erico seconded
Unanimously approved
Meeting adjourned at 20:54 UTC